I scared a biker - DOH!

[MaxCannon]

Always amazes me how many people can miss flashing lights and sirens directly behind them.

Almost every time I've moved over for Police / Ambo / Fire some twit ahead drives along blindly without a clue.

[Blue Thunder]

Yeah, I must confess I had the disturbing image of him pillioning an injured patient on his cruiser through rush hour traffic until I realised he's a fully fledged ambo driver now.

It is a disturbing image on his wee cruiser alright.
But the Image of him in his wee ambo is even scarier.

[Swoop]

As a biker - I felt for him, to go from a splitters dream gap to blubbering mess in a split second... ruined a good commute.

As a complete and utter bastard - goddam it was funny in retrospect

Too bad for him/her. If the plonker cannot use the mirrors they deserve a good fright.
The amount of bikers that fall into that category is growing. When filtering, keep checking your bloody mirrors!
If you don't have situational awareness - get back into your cage.

[sprag]

Took a sick kiddie lights and sirens to Starship from Middlemore this afternoon...

Lies all Lies, I have seen you in your little ambo just waiting on the on ramps to the motorway waiting for bikers, LOL

[McDuck]

I am gogin to have to be carefull when i am in AK next....

[Taz]

I agree the guy has eyes and he should have been continually scanning ahead, to the side and also in his mirrors every few seconds. Gotta build your safety envelope. If he'd been scanning he would have noticed the ambulance alot sooner. But sounds like he has no real road craft yet.

[Mikkel]

The stealth ambulance...

[klingon]

Maby ear plugs are not a good idear in a slow moving motorway? Besides in my ear plugs i can hear a siren...

I agree. My morning commute takes me through some busy parts of town, then over the bridge (opposite way to the traffic) and 100kph on the rest of the motorway once I've cleared Esmonde Rd. Helmet noise is really annoying when I reach 100kph but I don't wear ear plugs because I need every clue I can get when I'm splitting on the busy parts of my commute.

It's interesting how often I use hearing to keep track of what's going on around me - like where that 4WD is by the sound of its tyres on the road, or the big bike coming up behind me splitting faster than I am, or someone changing down a gear to make a quick lane-change right in front of me.

I really enjoy it as one of the advantages of riding. In a car you tend to have the radio on & the windows wound up, so you're not really aware of the subtle sounds that can give you a split-second reaction advantage. I will never use an iPod while riding for that reason.

[Patrick]

[QUOTE=janno;1308680]As a complete aside, can you get a drivers licence if you are deaf? QUOTE]

Yep... a condition on the licence will state that you must have internal and both external mirrors.. some friends I had, who were deaf, added more mirrors to the internal, facing every possible angle! No blind spots!!!